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Bork!]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>447</score><crdate>1/28/2009 8:22:09 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-01-28T08:22:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>60025</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/60025/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Le Chef Chef]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pretty weird.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>13</score><crdate>4/29/2008 11:44:12 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-29T11:44:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>101517</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/101517/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Horse From High Wycombe Allergic To Grass]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pandora a thoroughbred mare is suffering from an almost unheard of complaint - she is allergic to grass. <br/><br/>The five-year-old spends her life encased in a specially designed high-tech coverall which means she has the freedom to go outside.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>313</score><crdate>3/23/2009 9:05:47 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-23T09:05:47+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>129325</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129325/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Meet Mouse, the horse that's allergic to hay ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mouse the horse has been put on a strict diet of nuts and given a bed of shredded paper after her owners discovered she is allergic to hay and straw.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>255</score><crdate>7/29/2009 9:37:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-29T09:37:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>61684</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/61684/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Chef wants to outlaw out-of-season vegetables]]></title><description><![CDATA[Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve locally out-of-season fruit and vegetables.<br/><br/>Apparently stardom has seriously gone to this guy's head.]]></description><comments>27</comments><score>397</score><crdate>5/13/2008 1:50:58 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-13T13:50:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>113208</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/113208/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Pastry chef receives double hand transplant]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1999, Kepner lost both hands and feet to a strep infection.<br/>At the time, Kepner's daughter was only 3 years old. &quot;She doesn't remember her dad any other way but this. 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